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brain
Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain. -
conus arteriosus
the most anterior part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates, leading into the artery that leaves the heart; in mammals it forms a part of the upper wall of the right ventricle, in which the pulmonary artery originates. -
mesonephros
one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates. -
agnatha
the class of vertebrates comprising the lampreys, hagfishes, and several extinct forms, having no jaws or paired appendages. -
alcaligenes
any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products. -
anamniote
any vertebrate animal, such as a fish or amphibian, that lacks an amnion, chorion, and allantois during embryonic development